Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Martin Heidegger, Ann Ronell, The Question Concerning Technology
13 Aug 2016
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Author sees philosophy as evoking combat, rather than wisdom or love. The historical meaning of love is different than the definition we have today. Philosophy didn"t use to be as positive as we see it today. Philosophy began in relation to failing health produces statements that aim to cure the culture of its ailments. Destruction is dedicated to the future holds the possibility for reconstruction. Devastation has no future no hope for reconstruction. Technology has inflected our existences reflected in our everyday language: turned on, plugged in, connected. Technology responds to the needs of the essence of technology, which in turn puts the process of democracy in danger. Heidegger posits (naively) that there must exist a space where it is possible to escape technology. The author sees technology as a wave of destruction there is no possibility of existing without it. Technology as a wave of destruction is evident in nazism devoted to technology.
